Display rack



R. E. GLENN A ril 24, 1956 DISPLAY RACK Filed Jan. 27, 1955 FIG.3

m F R]. Y 8 M M I N R w m A N T l A 4 fi M Y 4 a; 7. 0m I m 15 A a 3 J r l 2 mm 1 A H .mw G k I F \FJ United States Patent 2,743,021 DISPLAY RACK Robert E. Glenn, Plattsburg, N. Y., assignor, by mesne assignments, to American Safety Razor Corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y., a corporation of Virginia Application January 27, 1953, Serial No. 333,452

1 Claim. (Cl. 211-72 This invention relates to a counter display rack for retail merchandise, particularly for cases containing safety razors and blades. It has hitherto been the practice to provide such racks with vertical metal rods over which undercut depressions in the rear wall of the case are designed to slip to retain the cases. Such racks are expensive and, as they are invariably thrown away when the cases carried by them (usually six) have been sold, highly'uneconomical. Furthermore, their use has necessitated the molding of undercut recesses in the rear wall of the case.

It is the object of the present invention to provide an inexpensive counter display rack, preferably made of cardboard, that can satisfactorily hold a stack of cases and thatcan be discarded when empty without serious loss. It is a further object of this invention to provide such a rack capable of holding cases not specially made with undercut recesses, it being only necessary that the case have a rear bottom flange.

In attaining these objects I have provided a single piece of cardboard foldable to form a base comprising front and side panels and a platform. The side panels extend upwardly as two vertical members forming uprights to which are attached a central backpanel from which a series of upwardly and forwardly extending tongues are lanced. A stack of cases is mounted on the platform, a bottom flange on the rear of each case fitting over and being held by one of the tongues. In this way the supporting platform may slope upwardly toward the rear so that the cases of the stack tip downwardly, the uppermost case presenting its contents to view while the tongues prevent the cases from sliding off the base and one another.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention. In these drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view with parts broken away of a display rack constructed in accordance with my invention, two cases being shown mounted upon the rack,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the front panel, platform and side panels prior to being folded,

Figure 3 is a similar view of the central. panel to the upper end of which is attached a folding headboard which may be used for advertising display,

Figure 4 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale taken through the middle of the rack shown in Figure 1 with the cases shown generally in outline, and

Figure 5 is a fragmentary transverse section taken along line 55 of Figure 4.

The rack shown in perspective in Figure 1 is' made by folding and assembling the parts shown in Figures 2 and 3, the rack comprising a front panel 1 to which is attached a platform 2 having a rear flange 3 and side 2,743,021 Patented Apr. 24,1956

flanges 4. On either side of the front panel 1 are side panels 5 extending vertically in uprights 6 each having a longitudinal flange 7. The panel 8, as shown in Figure 3, consists of a rectangular piece of cardboard of the same length as the uprights 6 from the center of which are lanced upwardly extending tongues 9 which are then bent outwardly, as shown in Figures 1 and ,4. The panel 8 is also lanced at either side of each tongue 9 to form two depending tongues 10 which add some flexibility to the panel adjacent the tongue 9 and facilitate the mounting of the cases. The upper end of the panel 8 is provided with a folding headboard 11 which may contain advertising matter and be held in vertical position above the panel ,8.

To assemble the parts just described, the flanges 3 and 4 are bent downwardly and the platform 2 bent rearwardly; at the same time the side panels 5 are bent rearwardly until they contact the flanges 4. The flanges 7 are then bent inwardly, whereupon the panel 8 is inserted between the now vertical flange 3 on the platform 2 and the two side flanges 7 on the uprights 6, as shown in Figures 1 and 4. Staples 12 may be used to hold the base of the rack in assembled position while an adhesive is preferably applied to the inner faces of the flanges 7 to join them to the edges of the panel 8.

The display rack constructed as just described and shown in assembled position in Figures 3 and 4, is a strong, sturdy structure capable of supporting six cases 13 each of which may contain a safety razor with its complement of blades. Each case 13 is provided along its rear lower edge with a flange 14 which, as shown in Figure 4, slips over one of the tongues 9 and is supported thereby at its rear edge, its front edge resting either upon the sloping platform or upon the parallel upper face of the next lower case. As the cases and their contents are relatively light, the tongues 9, cut as they are from a stiff cardboard, are suflicient to hold the cases in the position shown. The cases are sold beginning with the uppermost case in the stack.

I claim:

A display rack comprising a base, a platform carried by the base and sloping upward toward the rear of the base, an upright panel supported by the base at the rear of the base, a plurality of transverse tongues one above the other, lanced from the panel and extending forwardly and upwardly, each tongue designed to engage a rear bottom flange of one case of a stack of cases resting on the sloping platform, each transverse tongue terminating at its opposite ends in downwardly extended tongues lanced from the panel, both sets of tongues being formed by a single slit the intermediate portion of which is transverse and the terminal portions of which are U-shaped and downwardly opening.

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